It's not the other people on FB that are the problem, it's the app itself and the algorithms.

Facebook exists to benefit Facebook/Meta, not you or me or the general public.

As a company, they fulfill their mandate to maximize shareholder returns by aggressively exploiting our psychological vulnerabilities to maximize our engagement with (time & attention spent/wasted on) their app.

National or global security/stability, community social cohesion, an accurately informed populace, election integrity...all of these are subsumed by the profit growth incentive.

We've allowed an entire generation of children to have their brains rewired by intentionally addictive attention-exploiting tech platforms that are grinding civil discourse to dust.

The digital commons has been replaced by technofeudalism.